Crystal Amber (CRS) Competitors

Crystal Amber (LON:CRS) and AA (LON:AA) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation and risk.

Is CRS or AA a better dividend stock?

Crystal Amber pays an annual dividend of GBX 50 per share and has a dividend yield of 40.4%. AA pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.02 per share. Crystal Amber pays out 367.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. AA pays out 0.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Which has higher earnings and valuation, CRS or AA?

Crystal Amber has higher earnings, but lower revenue than AA. AA is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crystal Amber, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Crystal Amber	£10.58M	8.23	£9.56M	£13.59	9.10
AA	£982M	0.00	N/A	£11.70	N/A

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of CRS or AA?

80.3% of Crystal Amber shares are held by institutional investors. 5.5% of Crystal Amber shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Is CRS or AA more profitable?

Crystal Amber has a net margin of 90.42% compared to AA's net margin of 0.00%. Crystal Amber's return on equity of 11.18% beat AA's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Crystal Amber	90.42%	11.18%	5.45%
AA	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the MarketBeat Community favor CRS or AA?

AA received 319 more outperform votes than Crystal Amber when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.85% of users gave AA an outperform vote while only 56.58% of users gave Crystal Amber an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Crystal Amber	Outperform Votes 43 56.58%	Underperform Votes 33 43.42%
AA	Outperform Votes 362 77.85%	Underperform Votes 103 22.15%

Does the media favor CRS or AA?

In the previous week, Crystal Amber had 2 more articles in the media than AA. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Crystal Amber and 0 mentions for AA. Crystal Amber's average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat AA's score of 0.00 indicating that Crystal Amber is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Crystal Amber	Neutral
AA	Neutral

Summary

Crystal Amber beats AA on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.